Hopfions, heliknotons, skyrmions, torons and both abelian and nonabelian vortices in chiral liquid crystals

JS Wu, II Smalyukh - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Widely known for their uses in displays and electro-optics, liquid crystals are more than just
technological marvels. They vividly reveal the topology and structure of various solitonic and …

Microbial biosurfactant research: time to improve the rigour in the reporting of synthesis, functional characterization and process development

MS Twigg, N Baccile, IM Banat, E Déziel… - Microbial …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The demand for microbially produced surface‐active compounds for use in industrial
processes and products is increasing. As such, there has been a comparable increase in the …

[HTML][HTML] Optical methods for non-invasive determination of skin penetration: current trends, advances, possibilities, prospects, and translation into in vivo human …

ME Darvin - Pharmaceutics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Information on the penetration depth, pathways, metabolization, storage of vehicles, active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and functional cosmetic ingredients (FCIs) of topically …

Ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals

A Mertelj, D Lisjak - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
This review presents experimental realization and behaviour of the ferromagnetic nematic
phase, which is observed in different suspensions of magnetic nanoplatelets. After a general …

Determining liquid crystal properties with ordinal networks and machine learning

AAB Pessa, RS Zola, M Perc, HV Ribeiro - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning methods are becoming increasingly important for the
development of materials science. In spite of this, the use of image analysis in the …

Generating the Hopf fibration experimentally in nematic liquid crystals

BG Chen, PJ Ackerman, GP Alexander, RD Kamien… - Physical review …, 2013‏ - APS
The Hopf fibration is an example of a texture: a topologically stable, smooth, global
configuration of a field. Here we demonstrate the controlled sculpting of the Hopf fibration in …

Polarization holographic microscopy for extracting spatio-temporally resolved Jones matrix

Y Kim, J Jeong, J Jang, MW Kim, YK Park - Optics Express, 2012‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a high-speed holographic microscopic technique for quantitative measurement
of polarization light-field, referred to as polarization holographic microscopy (PHM) …

Nonlinear optical response and self-trap** of light in biological suspensions

R Gautam, A Bezryadina, Y **ang… - … in Physics: X, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
In the past decade, the development of artificial materials exhibiting novel optical properties
has become a major scientific endeavor. One particularly interesting system is synthetic soft …

Single-shot quantitative polarization imaging of complex birefringent structure dynamics

B Ge, Q Zhang, R Zhang, JT Lin, PH Tseng… - ACS …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Polarization light microscopes are powerful tools for probing molecular order and orientation
in birefringent materials. While a number of polarization microscopy techniques are …

Single-Shot Quantitative Polarization Imaging of Live Cancer Cells

M Rathor, SK Chaubey, R Tamang, B Koch… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Polarization, a fundamental feature of the light-matter interaction, is useful in understanding
the complex optical responses of the system and to unravel unique properties that are …